wiry
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- adjective
- /ˈwɪri/
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- I would gladly trade my limp yellow hair for the wiry black stuff on their heads.
- wiry hair
- wiry beard
- wiry curls
And because our hair is so wiry now, it's sort of the only thing I use.
- And because our hair is so wiry now, it's sort of the only thing I use.
- Those even bunching onions, they all have very wiry roots.
- But it could be any, I could list a whole bunch of other things like unkempt wiry eyebrows, like, or if there's like four or five that are just four or five eyebrows.
- He looked a bit like the doctor from Doc from Back to the Future, older guy with white wiry hair.
- It's linked on my Amazon storefront, but it's essentially this like little wiry stuff that goes into the grooves of the carpet and pulls out all the hair.
Examples
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The priest pulled at a wiry white beard that hung a good foot off his chin.
Fiction book (2001) -
His eyes were murky instead of brown, and his wiry hair contained every hue from black to almost orange.
Fiction book (2001) -
My father looked at her and ran his hands through his wiry black hair.
Fiction book (1996) -
A tall man with dark, wiry hair answered the bell.
Fiction book (1998) -
His wife's hair looks wiry and thick, strong somehow, like it does when she's just washed it.
Fiction book (1990) -
Nola watches him lean into the kitchen doorway and soothingly stroke his dark, wiry beard.
Fiction book (1995) -
A weathered redheaded woman named Rona—late forties, strong, wiry horsewoman's build—is walking towards him.
Fiction book (1998) -
Her wiry hair stood straight up after the wind blew through it.
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He noticed how wiry the strands of her hair felt when he ran his fingers through them.
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The stylist recommended products to tame her wiry curls and add some shine.
Synonyms
With stiff, coarse hair often describing dogs
Having short, stiff hair that feels rough like wire, especially on some dogs
Having short stiff hairs like a brush
Having hair that is stiff and rough when touched
Has thick, rough fur or a stiff coat
Having hair that does not feel smooth when you touch it
Having rough fur that does not feel soft
A little formal and not warm in how someone acts
Antonyms
Compounds
How Stiff
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wiry comes from the word wire plus the ending -y, so it literally means 'like wire'. This gives a clear image for hair or fur that is 'stiff and coarse' — it looks and feels a bit like thin metal wire.